Contested Spaces: Sites, Representations and Histories of Conflict

Contested Spaces is a global study of sites of conflict, places of loss, fear, resistance and pilgrimage where the materiality of violence forcibly brings the past into the present. The collection examines a series of internationally significant sites and how they are inhabited, represented, witnessed and visited.

Table of Contents:
Foreword; H.Zangana Abu Ghraib and the state of America: defining images; P.Hagopian Contested Mobilities and the Spatial Topography of Jerusalem; W.Pullan Altered States: The US-Mexico Borderlands as 'Third Nation'; M.Dear & J.Holzer Encounters with Partition: Tourism and Reconcilation; D.Lisle Burying the Hatchet? The Post-Combat Appropriation of Battlefield Spaces; T.Pollard 'The Truth that Will Set Us All Free': An Uncertain History of Memorials to Indigenous Australians; P.Read Competing Pasts: A Comparison of National Socialist and German Democratic Republic Remembrance in two Berlin Memorial Sites; G.Knischewski & U.Spittler Memory, What's it Good For? Forced Labour, Blockhouses and Museums in Pas de Calais, Northern France; J.Aulich 'No-one Has Allowed Me to Cry': Trauma, Memorialization and Children in Post-Genocide Rwanda; S.Field 'Under the Same Roof': Separate Stories of Long Kesh Maze; C.McLaughlin

About the Author :
MICHAEL DEAR Department of Geography, University of Southern California, USA SEAN FIELD Centre for Popular Memory and the Historical Studies Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa PATRICK HAGOPIAN Lecturer in American Studies, Lancaster University JACQUELINE HOLZER Doctoral student in the Department of Geography, University of Southern California, USA GERD KNISCHEWSKI Senior Lecturer in German Politics, University of Portsmouth, UK DEBBIE LISLE School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast, UK CAHAL MCLAUGHLIN Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, the University of Ulster, UK TONY POLLARD Director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology, University of Glasgow, UK WENDY PULLAN Senior Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK PETER READ Deputy Director of National Centre for Indigenous Studies, the Australian National University ULLA SPITTLER Principal Lecturer in German, University of Brighton, UK HAIFA ZANGANA Painter, writer and author of Through the Vast Halls of Memory

Review :
'Raises important questions about the materiality of place as expressed through memory, interpretation, representation, narrative and preservation. In looking at physical and psychological landscapes shaped by violence, this book is never glib: contradictions are intelligently drawn out and sensitively discussed.' - Museums Journal